Dave Chappelle Told Maya Exactly Why He Left 8 years ago.

[jadillac]

I think the part where he talks about how someone laughed at his jokes says it all.

I think his integrity hit him. People were laughing AT him rather than with him. And I think I know the people he was talking about.

You mean the white ppl laughing, or someone else specifically?


I think I heard him say along time ago, it hit him when he did a racial joke and some white guy laughed in a way he (Dave) felt was totally inappropriate. Then combine that with probably hundreds of white ppl who approach him saying lines from the stuff like the nikkar family sketch and Black White Supremecists sketch.

I don't wanna be THAT guy, but IMO, that stuff is good for Black ppl to laugh at....but it's not meant for white ppl to laugh at. As black ppl, we all know or have known ppl who ARE those characters Dave was playing and we laugh at them from a place of understanding that white ppl cannot understand.

 

[NYC Rebel]

You mean the white ppl laughing, or someone else specifically?


I think I heard him say along time ago, it hit him when he did a racial joke and some white guy laughed in a way he (Dave) felt was totally inappropriate. Then combine that with probably hundreds of white ppl who approach him saying lines from the stuff like the nikkar family sketch and Black White Supremecists sketch.

I don't wanna be THAT guy, but IMO, that stuff is good for Black ppl to laugh at....but it's not meant for white ppl to laugh at. As black ppl, we all know or have known ppl who ARE those characters Dave was playing and we laugh at them from a place of understanding that white ppl cannot understand.

You have no clue what's being talked about.

Chapelle's strength as a comedian is the irony his comedy displays. Blacks have always laughed at that irony he highlighted through his comedy. That irony seems to go over the head of white folks who rather laugh at the joke than the intention the comedy is supposed to expose.

 

[jadillac]

You have no clue what's being talked about.

Chapelle's strength as a comedian is the irony his comedy displays. Blacks have always laughed at that irony he highlighted through his comedy. That irony seems to go over the head of white folks who rather laugh at the joke than the intention the comedy is supposed to expose.

LOL...you're making my point bruh.

Black ppl understand the stuff behind the joke, whereas white ppl don't...and IMO they can't. In the end, we're both laughing, but from different places.

 

[NYC Rebel]

LOL...you're making my point bruh.

Black ppl understand the stuff behind the joke, whereas white ppl don't...and IMO they can't. In the end, we're both laughing, but from different places.

Indeed.

You're right. I mos def think Dave's integrity stopped him from continuing the show.

I always wonder how Chris Rock feels about white folks using his "jokes" to speak on black people.

 

[NZA]

it seems like a combination of the race angle, the way people behave at his standup shows yelling about rick james or whatever, and the business side involving his ruined friendship with neal brennan

 

[jadillac]

Indeed.

You're right. I mos def think Dave's integrity stopped him from continuing the show.

I always wonder how Chris Rock feels about white folks using his "jokes" to speak on black people.

True. I remember SO many white dudes back then who loved recite the "There's blacks folks...and there's nikkas"

That's another joke that only black ppl truly get the meaning behind the joke.

I thought I remembered reading an article about Rock mentioning how he stopped doing those jokes b/c white ppl were reciting them too much. But maybe I didn't....if I did I'm sure someone on here can find it.

 

[wire28]

Do you think it's because he's religious?

Wanting to maintain artistic integrity makes you weak? He's weak for not c00ning?

Why do you get that impression, breh?

this is a man who is for bieber. he doesnt comprehend maintaining one's integrity

 

[GzUp]

He pointed this out on inside the actors studio years ago. This is the film room so I assume enough of you watch it or have watched it or at least seen it but when he was on the show he explained why he left and said the same basic thing: he's going through airports and hearing stuff he felt uncomfortable with and felt like people were laughing at him instead of with him. Even said some white people came up him dropping the N bomb and that three him off too. I got no problem with him quitting the show if none of this sat well with him and I'm not sure it would've sat well with me either. I can say sure I would be but I'd never know unless I'm n that position.

Is it the one where he smoked like a 100 cigs?

 

[MartyMcFly]

Is it the one where he smoked like a 100 cigs?

yup

 

[O.Red]

True. I remember SO many white dudes back then who loved recite the "There's blacks folks...and there's nikkas"

That's another joke that only black ppl truly get the meaning behind the joke.

I thought I remembered reading an article about Rock mentioning how he stopped doing those jokes b/c white ppl were reciting them too much. But maybe I didn't....if I did I'm sure someone on here can find it.

In a 2008(?) Rolling Stone interview he said that he regrets ever using that joke

 

[Towlie]

His best work is his stand up, and he does that occasionally

Random but I ran into him 2 years ago at a strip club called diamonds in Dayton.

 

[Gains]

 

[Mensch Fontana]

RIP Maya

 

[End Cruelty]

1. I think his religion has a bit to do with it
2. He's super vague about "artistic integrity" Comedians are a strange breed. They are fukked up enough to tell the stories they tell, but they think way too highly of themselves sometimes. I think Dave thought he fukked himself with all the racial humor, but I don't think he was really mentally prepared to reorient himself to what he wanted to be.

It was more than being mentally prepared. He was a celebrity. He had little control over his image at that point. If he was mentally unstable or weak why would he seek counsel? That seems pretty rational to me. And as far as thinking way to highly of themsleves, I think a 5 year contract for 50 million dollars and being the most popular comedian at that time warrants that.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Indeed.

You're right. I mos def think Dave's integrity stopped him from continuing the show.

I always wonder how Chris Rock feels about white folks using his "jokes" to speak on black people.

@Kritic had his white GF call into Tariq Nasheed's show and she had the audacity to even say she learned about some of the "black plight" through stand up comedy.

That alone lets you know their mindset.